About the webinar series

This is the third webinar and final webinar in our three-part webinar series which gives environmental practitioners a practical grounding in Australia's Nature Repair Market - the national biodiversity certificate scheme established under the Nature Repair Market Act.

This webinar will focus on Enhancing Native Vegetation Method, Offsets in the Market and Threatened Species: A closer look at the method: design of projects, biodiversity assessment, monitoring and reporting, and offset-capable projects.

Across three sessions, the series moves from policy and regulatory foundations, through the scientific methodology underpinning certificate integrity, to the tools and platforms used in practice - equipping ecologists and other professionals to engage with the Market with confidence.

This series will help attendees:

• Describe the structure, purpose and current state of the Nature Repair Market and broadly understand stacking arrangements with the ACCU scheme
• Introduction to the role of the CER and registering a Nature Repair Market project
• Explain the role and responsibilities of a Suitably Qualified Person (SQP)
• Identify the steps involved in registering and managing a Nature Repair project
• Understand the basic structure of the Replanting Native Forests and Woodlands Method.
• Understanding the upcoming Enhancing Native Vegetation Method, Offsets in the Market and Threatened Species
• Navigate PLANR
• Understand the science that underpins the Nature Repair Market

Meet the Speakers

Felicity McLean | Acting Director, Alignment and Performance Section, Nature Repair Market Delivery, DCCEEW

Felicity has more than 15 years' experience with the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and its predecessor agencies, working across environmental policy, regulation, and program management.

Her experience spans EPBC Act assessments and approvals, including the assessment of environmental offset proposals, as well as the recent EPBC environmental law reform and associated draft Offsets Standard.

She has also worked extensively on strengthening the use of science in environmental decision-making through the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) and the design of its successor program. She is passionate about supporting environmental decision-makers through providing access to practical and robust decision-support tools.

More recently, Felicity has been involved in developing the Nature Repair Market, including the design of biodiversity assessment and measurement approaches. This work includes development of the threatened species and commitment to protection variable biodiversity project characteristics, which are novel mechanisms for consistently measuring and verifying biodiversity outcomes from Nature Repair Market projects. These characteristics are included as part the draft Enhancing Native Vegetation Method, the first Nature Repair Market method that will enable market projects to be used as environmental offsets.

Ryan Wilson | Branch Head (Acting) of the Nature Repair Market Branch within the Nature Finance and Market Division at the DCCEEW

Dr Ryan Wilson leads the Biodiversity Markets branch in the newly established Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW). Prior to this Ryan managed the implementation of the Agriculture Biodiversity Stewardship Package, trialling ways to establish a biodiversity market for private landholders. Ryan has held international and domestic policy roles for a number of years in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. He represented Australia and supported our global engagement on agriculture and food security, through the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the G20, OECD and APEC. In domestic policy Ryan has contributed to food and agriculture industry policy as well as plant health policy and programs with Australian industry sectors. Ryan’s volunteering roles have included mentoring and chairing of two not-for-profit boards.

This webinar will run on Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) and will be recorded. A link to the recording will be sent to all registered delegates in the days following the event.

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